My Heart Laid Bare : HarperCollins : 9781094149837 : 1094149837 : 28 Apr 2020 : New York Times Bestselling Author Finally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists?a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability ?Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy.??People ?My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive.??The San Francisco Chronicle The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham can